Cracking the stone age code

Duration: 52

Year Published: 1971

Creator: Time-Life

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Surveys the most recent theories about the stone rings and standing stones of Great Britain. Demonstrates the possibility that the ancient Britons may have had sophisticated systems of mathematics, astronomy, and geometry that anticipated the Greeks. Examines the controversial theories of Alexander Thom, former Professor of Engineering Science at Oxford. On-site photography at Stonehenge and other Druidic locales.


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